verbal slip
Accidental wrong word
A verbal slip is an unintentional error in speech—saying one word when you meant another, mispronouncing something, or accidentally revealing what you were thinking.
It was just a verbal slip, but calling her by his ex's name cost him the relationship.
The term often implies the mistake reveals something true, as in Freudian slip.
- gaffeClumsy social error
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- tongueOral muscle for taste
- misspeakExpress oneself incorrectly
- stumbleLose footing momentarily
flub · brain fart · oops · embarrassment · awkward · mistake · stammer · fumble · blooper · lapse · accident · unconscious · reveal · word salad · stutter · mispronounce · garble · mumble
- verbal blundersgaffe, foot-in-mouth, blabbing, loose talk
- language errorsspelling error, spelling mistake, typo, misspelling, syntax error
- speech errorsmispronunciation, malapropism, malapropisms, spoonerism, spoonerisms
- Word Mix-upshomophone, homonym, malapropism, spoonerism, eggcorn
- Mishearingsmondegreen, mondegreens, eggcorn, eggcorns, malapropism
verbal sliptypographical error
Mistake in printed text
typo · spelling mistake · transcription error · pen slip · clerical error
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